The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-04-14

ing that was several years short of
thirty, and she was still younger, but It
had the fascination about it which dan
gerous games often have. What with
bathing, boating, and making amends, q
fortnight slipped away presently, and
when returned to town, at the end of
that time, I could hardly be called free
man.
CLEVER WOMEN.
Names Of Distinction In the World Of Art
and Literature.
A clever woman who Is just settling in
New York is Mrs. Florence Kelley Wischne-
wetsky, who is, in spite of her conspicuously
Nihilistic name, . daughter Of Judge W. d.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania. She has brought back
with her from four years. stay at the UNI
versity Of Zurich Russian medical student
for Q husband. Florence Kelley graduated
from Cornell some half dozen years ago, Q
bright-faced, enthusiastic girl, and went abroad
to study political economy, science that in
terests few women, but lays strong hold on
the handful It attracts. Since her return to
America Mrs. Wischnewetsky has been put in
charge of series Of publications to be issued
as the New York Labor Library, and intended
to supply economic literature to the working
classes.
Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, who
died in New York city Monday morning, April
4, though born in humble station, was at the
time Of her death probably the richest woman
In the United States, her annual income being
estimated at about e5oo,oM She was well
known as philanthropist. The amount Of
3 the deceased lady's fortune IL not exactly
known, but she has given about 100000 to
charities. Her pictures are worth another g.
100000, her houses es,0N,000 and her jewels and
personal property el,o0.m. o.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Is in Havana, and
sends back newspaper letters to the Western
papers. She says: "All its sights and scenes
are wholly foreign to the States. Shop
women-many Of them young and pretty-old
market women-negresses-chi children not more
than hve years old, smoke, not only cigarettes,
but are frequently seen on the streets pufiing
immense cigars. Children semi or wholly nude
play in open courts or run on the busy streets
in beautiful innocence, unnoticed save by the
visitors, whose minds have been trained in the
immodesty Of civilization. Beggars enter the
dining-rooms Of the best hotels and importune
US at the tables till driven out by the walters,
who pursue with rolling r-r-r's and threaten
ing napkins; and toddling infantsy 1old men
and hobbling cripples everywhere follow you
with lottery tickets, which apparently no Wis
itor ever buys"
Though Henry George has acquired
such large celebrity, his vife's name has hardly
been mentioned by the papers that speak of
him 30 often and 90 much. She is q thorough
home body, devoted to her husband and their
four children. She is one Of the small, plump,
CHEEKY bodies that never get down-hearted,
and people who have known them O long time
say that but for her unfagging devotion and
enthusiastic belief in him Mr.. George would
never have been able to come triumphantly
through the long period Of straitened means
and hard work which preceded his sudden sue
cess.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has always be-
longed to that class of women who were dubbed
"strons minded" some twenty-five or thirty
years ago; but even that reputation, and her
Concord philosophy, too, do not lessen her ter
ror of crossing crowded street. She will gaze
helplessly across, cling to anybody who offers
assistance, stand in the middle Of the street and
stare at an approaching horsecar and then grab
up her skirts and run back. just a. scohing men
declare women always do.
Mrs. Jenness Miller, whose system of
aesthetic dress reform IL beginning to attract q
| good deal Of attention, was once Q dressmaker,
but her enthusiasm for woman suffrage was
aroused, and she left her dressmaking for the
lecture platform and spoke through Massachu-
setts for the suifragists. She afterward es-
| poused Ben Buffers cause and delivered sew
eral addresses in his behalf during his success
full campaign for the Massachusetts, governor
ship.
Mrs. Josephine Redding is one of the
most successful women journalists In New
York. For several years she has been the ed
itor of the Art Intsrchangiand the Home Deooyo-
tions. She conducts both publications with 90
much ability that they are financially very
Accessful. Mrs. Redding Is q young woman,
small, slight and brown-haired, with q pretty,
piquant face and charming, vivacfous manner.
Lucy Stone, to all young women whom
she meets In any way, whatever, is the person
| facation of motherliness. One involuntarily
thinks Of her as being the ideal n.atron Of {
home for young girls. She 10 small, and in
creasing years have made her rather stout
while her fresh and rosy complexion causes hea
to look much younger than she really ia.
Although Miss Murfree seems to have
leaped into fame at Q single bound, she hal
really been writing for . long time. It u ten
| or dozen years since the signature Of Charlie,
Egbert Craddock first appeared in the maya
Hnes. and ever since then her stories OF th,
Tennessee mountains have been frequent Wis
itors to the pages OF several magazines.
Bertha Won Hillern, who has been gain
ing good deal Of success a. an artist since sh,
quietly gave up pedestrianism few years ago
Il Q devoted Catholic. In the wilds OF Yves
Virginia, where she spends her summers, sh.
will walk ten miles and back under the burninl
summer sun whenever the possibility OCCUR
Of attending mass
Almost Hint.
Esmeralda Longcofan's parent says II
young Mr.. 6taylste: II may be an old man
and darned ugly old man, but II you dom
| on home I'll ahOvv won thaf I'LL v,<,Guess IN.